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There are four players "unidentified" in the 1886 photo, as compared to the sketch of the club published later. The caption to the photo (as published in the book on the history of the Western League) suggests these players are Tom McAndries, Tom Hogan, Dan Dugdale, and Billy Mountjoy. Exemplars exist for all but Tom Hogan.

Player 12 is thought to be Dugdale. The caption suggests Hogan is Player 7 (but the caption seems to be unreliable).

Mountjoy and McAndries are compared with Player 2 above. That leaves Player 11 as the other of McAndries and Mountjoy, and I'm not really seeing that.

The assumption (based on the presence of Dugdale and Hogan) is that the photo was taken late in the season, as Hogan did not join the club until August 12. But if the caption is wrong about some of the players, maybe the photo was taken earlier. Silch's uniform changes from one to the other, so it doesn't look like they were taken at the same time.

I can see a resemblance between Hunter and Player 11, which would throw off the timing of the photo entirely. Players 11 and 12 are shown below.

Update: There is a clipping in the Rocky Mountain News on August 24, 1886, about the club as it returned from a trip. The players returning are identified as Dugdale, Hogan, O'Brien, Tebeau, Ryan, Phillips, Straub, Meinke, O'Neil, Lanser, Mountjoy, McAndries and Silch. It explicitly states that Hunter and McMillan did not return with the club. So Lanser and Dugdale overlapped, but Hunter and Dugdale did not.